I'm sorry I misunderstood your previous request :-D. I must say that
selecting text is different in every browsers. I posted IE methods
(whoops! ;-) )
>> this should work in mozilla firefox :
var selDiv = document.getElementById("selected"); //what I want to
highlight with selection
var notSelDiv = document.getElementById("notselected");
var range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(selDiv, 0);
range.setEnd(notSelDiv, 0);
var sel = window.getSelection(); //selection Object
if (sel.rangeCount > 0)
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
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>> But Safari throws an error while processing the last method (the
one which actually highlight text), so you should try:
>> window.getSelection().setBaseAndExtent(selDiv, 0, selDiv, 1);
So you'll only need to play around with this (strange and mostly
unknown) method.
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You can still use
>> document.execCommand("Unselect");
to get rid of the selection.
P.S. I made a mistake in my last post. TextRange are only supported
by Internet Explorer. There is a Range Object in Gecko, anyway.
Folks, I've been all over the net without finding a definitive
answer,
so I thought I'd come to the source. Is there any way, in
Safari/webkit, to programmatically select some text in javascript?
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Yes, of course. You should use the "document.execCommand(few
args)" command.
I successfully tested the 'SelectAll", "Copy", "Unselect" arguments
in my dashboard widget. It works with text range too.
More info on Msdn pages:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/
execcommand.asp
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